Development's Displacements
Economies, Ecologies, and Cultures at Risk
Description
As multilateral agencies, social movements, and state authorities
worldwide struggle to cope with the effects of large-scale development
projects, the problem of displacement remains unresolved. This
volume seeks to address displacement as a broad and multilayered
phenomenon. A series of illustrative case studies drawn from around the
globe provide causal accounts of why and how displacement occurs, what
its effects on communities, ecosystems, and economies look like, and
the normative or ethical positions held by key actors involved.
Contributors offer economic, political, and cultural analyses, as well
as extensive ethnographic field research, to present a picture of
displacement that illustrates the depth and the breadth of the issue.